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WS MoreOrLess: Horoscope Health

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BBC

News Commentary, Science, Mathematics, News

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Can your horoscope predict which diseases you’ll develop? And does cricket’s Duckworth-Lewis method need to evolve?

Transcript

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This is the short edition of more or less, first broadcast on the BBC World Service.

0:05.0

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0:14.9

podcasts.

0:17.5

Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service. I'm Ruth Alexander.

0:25.0

Hi Hannah.

0:27.0

Ruth, do you believe in destiny?

0:30.0

I believe in hard work and a positive attitude.

0:33.0

No, come on, what's your star sign?

0:35.0

Scorpio.

0:36.0

Right, says here, an exciting new chapter of your career is starting now.

0:43.0

What right now?

0:44.0

Yeah, I think so, working with me.

0:46.0

The sun unites with Assertive Mars on Sunday

0:50.0

and the exciting news you've been waiting for will finally arrive.

0:54.4

I wonder if that means the sim card for my new phone will turn up today because it's a little overdue.

0:59.0

That would be good.

1:00.0

Is that all you're hoping for?

1:01.8

Petis at the moment, yeah.

1:04.0

But you are likely to develop respiratory problems, stomach issues,

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depression, a viral infection.

1:13.0

Why are we talking about horoscopes,

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